Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
I agree with your meaning but not the semantics, before "LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY , WE HAD PEACE OFFICERS.

The elitists and their Toadies ,The Laim stream Talking heads, we had welfare, They made it entitlements, which lumps it in with SS and veterans benefits. The difference is simple. when you pay fpr something in cash ,trade, or service you are entitled to it. for 56 years I payed into a savings fund. that fund promised me 2 things or entitled me to those two things intrest on my money and a paid full coverage health insurance for life. it was called social security, medicaid/medicare and a comfortable retirement. they stole all the money every cent, so now I am lumped into the group with those who didn't pay their fare share. Welfare IS NOT an entitlement, it is a forced charity that you and I are forced pay for. I also fought a war for this government that had nothing to do with protecting America. for that I was promised much, most of which I never got and never will. I believe in charity for those willing to help them selves. A hand up not ,a hand out. Am I entitled, you bet your A**. Is that Momma Boo Boo wana be, with her skinny A**ed crack addict boy friend entitled, NO, don't put me in the same catigory .

NOTE: Had the Social security system kept it's promise the average fund for each person would be over $ 890000, at age 62.
Peace officer ............Waaaay cool !

I'm not so sure about Social Security. As i understand it:



It was created around the time of the New Deal. That would have been back during my grandfather's day. Life was pretty hard back then. The standard work day was ten hours and you generally worked six days a week. Average life expectancy wasn't much more that 68 years.

Once you get up in your sixties it's pretty hard to do that. Social Security was only intended to be a supplemental income so that the older hands could scale back to part time work. You went on it at 65 and odds were that you would only be drawing for three or four years before you died. ~ It was a feasible plan. ~

It was never intended to be something you could live on and health insurance was never a part of the deal.

Anyway .... that all went southbound during the Nixon Administration. Up until then, the monies paid into the system went directly to the Social Security Administration. During his administration they started sending all the pension money to the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury issues IOU's to SSA and money owed became part of our national debt.

In a nutshell ... they broke the deal and robbed the pension fund. The Social Security Administration ceased to be. All of it's obligations were assumed by the government.

Now they're entitlements.

< scratches head > I dunno .... how could you ever judge who is worthy and who is not ?

I think of my mother in law and in all honesty she is probably one of the most worthless people i've ever met. Never worked a day in her life. Was a complete failure as a wife & mother to her children. Never contributed anything and always took from the system like a parasite.

Here she is 70 years old and in the nursing home. With reasonable care it's likely she will live at least another ten years.

I could support a family of four on what it's costing the state to keep her in there every year.

By most any account she doesn't deserve anything but this isn't about her and whether she's worthy or not. This is about us and the kind of people we are. You shouldn't leave your people behind ? It's the morally right thing to do ?